Article: 15191 of comp.sys.sun.hardware Message-ID: <3DFEDC99.8040105@doramail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:13:13 -0800 From: "G. Low" Organization: Georgie's SOLARCADE! (http://come.to/georgie) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: Sun Frame buffers...? References: <3DFEBA35.5090605@doramail.com> <3DFEC425.8060709@doramail.com> <3DFEC9AD.A7F6C8DA@mist.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.130.144.249 X-Trace: nopics.sjc 1040112685 64.130.144.249 (17 Dec 2002 00:11:25 -0800) Lines: 30 Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!news.webusenet.com!telocity-west!DIRECTV!nopics.sjc!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net comp.sys.sun.hardware:15191 Yes! OpenGL games on Sun Ultras! I usually surf the web looking for compilable games under Solaris Sparcs...! The cross-platforms SDL libraries (http://libsdl.org) have helped alot, because many games that use these libraries R compilable... E.g. tuxracer - opengl abuse-sdl - the pc/mac game alephone-sdl - remember marathon2 on macs & pcs? critical mass - opengl prboom - improved doom engine quake2 - do I need to say more? =) etc, etc...! You can find these games (in source code) at http://freshmeat.net My experience is that for OpenGL games, reducing the resolution of a Creator3d to 1280x1024 (or less) gives ok performance, and the Elite3d/m3 is around 40% - 70% faster...but because I haven't kept up with the latest pc hardware, I was wondering if we could roughly compare the current breed of Sun frame buffers with the pcs'... From experience, for most 3D games, the pgx32, pgx64 won't cut it...but most 2D games running on XMAME are ok on those cards, as long as you have a fairly decent machine to play them on... (UltraSparc I 200mhz, and above)... Cheers! Georgie